Outrageous Fitness Myths Part II - You're proving my point!
fad diets, exercise, calories, diet, fitness myths
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Today I posted about fitness myths and one of the comments I received on my www.primetimeworkouts.com blog is worthy of a response. I am grateful for this person for voicing an opinion about what many may believe to be true. I will leave the name of the person anonymous out of respect. So for the purpose of the discussion let’s call him:
"Gym Shorts"
First: The issue in question:
Myth #2: You have to count calories for weight loss
There are so many fad diets out there that paint the picture that weight loss is a complicated process. You have to eat certain foods at certain times and avoid other foods at all costs. Of course all of these popular diets conflict over which foods you should or shouldn’t eat.
The truth is that you don’t have to make weight loss such a science. Simply eat healthy fresh foods that haven’t been processed, and eat smaller amounts and more often than you’re eating today.
No brain science there, just results.
The comment from Gym Shorts:
#2 is not a myth (you have to count calories for weight loss)
If what you say is true, we could sit on our couch and eat healthy fresh foods in small amounts all they long and we wouldn’t get fat. A nice thought but far away from reality. If you want to get smaller, you have to eat below maintenance calories, which can be calculated fairly easy. If you want to grow, you have to eat over maintenance calories. Simple as that. Now what you are saying could still result into eating below maintenance, but has nothing to do with not counting calories. At the end if there is more energy in form of food that goes in, compared to the energy that goes out, you will get fat. If you count or not.
In fact, many of these “weight loss breakthroughs” you bash in your first paragraph, or diet programs based on them, use exactly this to hype their program (”you don’t have to count calories”).
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on 8/28/2008
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